Just freaking deleted my level 26 character which I beat the game on! Spent 24 hours on him! I feel like an idiot and need some encouragement to continue playing haha ( as sad as this sounds! ).

Play again, and tweak my character, I deleted about 3 or 4 so far because they were not correct.

I've deleted two characters. One of them I deleted because my special was really stupid but I only put two hours into him so that was okay. And the second one I deleted on accident as you already know based off of the first post.

Did this last night, actually. I just restarted and decided to try hardcoe.

Good, now I don't feel like a complete dumb ass haha. What level was your character and how far was he in the questline?

And I'm doing the same at the moment, I made a character he's got 9 strength and 9 endurance I'm pretty much doing the opposite of what I did before to see what would happen. I'm doing this on Very hard - hard core mode. Not very fun so far..

I need to add the RPG element I had for Oblivion + Fallout 3.

It doesn't sound all that bad actually.

For me, if I go off of my Fallout 3 experience with 5 characters, its always best to not go the exact opposite of the character that you just deleted but rather either refine your character, assuming the character that you're starting on is your 2nd, or just try a different playstyle and setup that's tweaked a bit from your deleted characters. I personally played more on my 2nd character in Fallout 3 than my first, despite them being similar in style, I was more organized in how my character was built, and in turn, I had more fun knowing what I had made.

There's also "personal" challenges you can make yourself to keep the game more interested. Using a certain type of weapon, or limiting the quantity of this or that are examples.

Just throwing suggestions out there so that you can keep on playing and enjoy it.

I'd remake my old character, and use the console to get back to (pretty much) the same place I was before.
I did that with Oblivion and it only took a couple of hours. Man, being on the PC rocks

Lvl 27, about 100 from 28. Almost done, maybe 3 more hrs to go (I take it slooow). Wanted to free HD space, so I went to delete Fo3 (which I'm not playing right now), and deleted the wrong game. Had to reinstall it and everything.

I'm going more "cowboy," focusing heavily on survival and sneak (for huntin').

Doesn't the fact that the challenges aren't real make the game not so much fun? I mean why pretend you can only carry 50 wg when you can carry 200 wg. Also because these limitations aren't real, you'll eventually start making exceptions for things. Idk I mean I tried this before but I couldn't do it for long without thinking " WTF am I doing? "

Well certain limitations can make the game not fun but some can expand your playstyle of choice.

One character I had in Fallout 3 required me to only use one-handed / unarmed weapons. I knew that I needed and it made the playthrough quite fun, as I used sneak fairly more often than I did as well as Unarmed for my primary attacks. This translated into my first character of New Vegas being a mixture of Unarmed and Guns since I enjoyed being Unarmed so much in that playthrough.

Weapon restrictions are probably the best idea to go by if you want some challenge. Plus, I don't exactly need achievements to know that I've done something worthy of mentioning. Then again, I take challenges in stride and just to do them for fun where as if you present these same challenges to others, they may simply say that its horrible.

Edit: Speaking of which, I'm actually doing a "No Bullets" hardcoe character right now. Just gotta play my cards right and I'll definitely enjoy it. I know I will. This is excluding the bullets in the tutorial sadly as you're required to knock down 3 bottles with the Varmint Rifle.

Lucky, sometimes I wish I bought my games for the PC and not the Xbox 360, but I just prefer the set up on Xbox 360 the way the achievement system works and the many features you can do on it that you can't do on steam.


Wow that does sound pretty fun, if only the things you hunted actually dropped good things. ( Only the really difficult creatures do )

Never thought about it that way, that does seem fun! The key to do that is to have a high charisma + intelligence + luck, everything else can remain low. Major skills are barter, speech, lockpicking, sneak. Sounds pretty fun, I'll definitely have to give that a go. But now I need to remake my previous character which really svcks but now that I know all of the quests I can breeze through it and save maybe 6-8 hours?

All I'm saying is "Just give it a shot and see how it goes." You may just end up liking it like me and Unarmed.

Though what I'm referring to purely an Unarmed + Grenades character actually since I don't use grenades often enough so I'm trying to influence myself to use them when need be. Having a non-combat character was never really my style but hey, that's what the 3rd character option is for right?

By the way, when I created that new character and devoted him towards melee only, it seems like unarmed svcks. I chose unarmed, melee weapons, and survival as the tagged skills. When I got out and decided to help out the powder gangers I found that unarmed just plain svcks. I mean in comparison to a baseball bat, using no weapon at all and just your fists feels like torture. Does it get any better when you get more unarmed weapons like the displacer gloves, or is it still about the same?

The Boxing Gloves you get at the start of the game and your own fists are actually a deadly combination in the beginning. I should know as I'm actually doing that. Once you drop them, assuming its more than one enemy, then you switch to your fists and just hack down the health. It takes some strategy, as they can get up eventually if you don't hit them with the Boxing Gloves a few more times, but it can be done. Just takes some planning.

And yep, the high-end Unarmed weapons definitely shine, more specifically the Ballistic Fist along with the Fallout 3 favorite of the Power Fist.

I've pretty much deleted all the FO3 characters I played.... yeah, I kept one save from each on a different drive, but because each of those playthroughs was modded in a completely different way, it'd be pretty hard for me to reinstall the game in a matching setup. So I can't really use those saves very easily.


Based on that, I'll probably do the same with FO:NV.